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  • The Zarqawi Phenomenon
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A remarkable proportion of the violence taking place in Iraq is regularly credited to the Jordanian Ahmad al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and his organization Al Qaeda in Iraq. Sometimes it seems no car bomb goes off, no ambush occurs that isn’t claimed in his name or attributed to him by the Bush administration. Bush and his top officials have, in fact, made good use of him, lifting his reputed feats of terrorism to epic, even mythic, proportions (much aided by various (…)

  • Iraq War Deserters Speak Out From Canada
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    First Person Commentaries, Paolo Pontoniere, Pacific News Service, Jul 05, 2005 Editor’s Note: Three U.S. servicemen living in Canada tell why they refused to serve in Iraq.
    Jeremy Hinzman, 26
    TORONTO—My name is Jeremy Hinzman. I was a specialist with the 82nd Airborne division.
    I’m from South Dakota, from an area where there were not many jobs. I went through school believing that you got to be part of something bigger than yourself. I was also looking for structure and a sense of (…)

  • Shock and Awe: Aerial Bombardment, American Style
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    NASA Landsat 7 image showing effects of Coalition bombing in Baghdad, 2 April 2003.
    Before the 2003 American invasion the Bush administration declared that the strategy of "Shock and Awe" bombing would be used to assault Iraq. Driving through Baghdad during my stay here in the last month has allowed me to see some of the destruction caused by the aerial bombardment, which preceded the US invasion. One thing that struck me as odd was a bombed out government run shopping mall, which (…)

  • Iraq: Imperial Quagmire- We’re fighting people that we’re supposed to help, in fact they hate us
    6 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jeremy Hinzman, 26
    TORONTO—My name is Jeremy Hinzman. I was a specialist with the 82nd Airborne division. U.S. Army deserter Joshua Key (L) with his daughter Anna and wife Brandi (R) during a meeting of the War Resistants movement and U.S. Army deserters in Toronto, Canada. The 27-year old Key, a father of four children is seeking asylum in Canada. Photo by Jochen Siegle/Polaris Images
    I’m from South Dakota, from an area where there were not many jobs. I went through school believing (…)

  • Disgraced Tony Blair
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The disgraced British Prime Minister Tony Blair is using the G8 for his personal PR and to distract attention from his crimes against humanity in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. As he speaks for the African poor, his troops and aircraft are killing the poor in Afghanistan and Iraq. His men are torturing innocent in US secret prisons around the world. British businesses are busy stealing others’ wealth and resources. Blair is worst than Bush because Bush is honestly stupid. Americans elect (…)

  • Rove, worse then bin laden: With friends like Karl, who needs terrorists?
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW YORK—In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.
    If, as state-controlled media insists, there is such a creature as a Global War on Terrorism, our enemies are underground Islamist organizations (…)

  • What’s To Celebrate?
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Another July 4th is upon us. Many of my neighbors are hoarding up on the fireworks, the barbecue specialties, and the booze. “Its Independence Day” they exclaim...“This is America, with much to celebrate!” Yeah, right!
    Too bad most of America is oblivious to the Downing Street Memo. A few years back, almost one half of those polled thought that Clinton should be impeached from office for lying about sex. Never a Clinton supporter, this writer laughed at the presumptiveness of the charge. (…)

  • Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama Bin Laden
    5 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Karl Rove: Worse Than Osama Bin Laden Ted Rall July 04, 2005 NEW YORK—In war collaborators are more dangerous than enemy forces, for they betray with intimate knowledge in painful detail and demoralize by their cynical example. This explains why, at the end of occupations, the newly liberated exact vengeance upon their treasonous countrymen even they allow foreign troops to conduct an orderly withdrawal.
    If, as state-controlled media insists, there is such a creature as a Global War on (…)

  • We’ll bring our troops home, whether Bush likes it or not
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush and Rumsfeld reject the idea of a timeline to withdraw from Iraq. Bush says we need to "stay the course." Rumsfeld says we’ll be there another 10 years. I wonder if these men would be willing to go through what our soldiers do: Occupying a country that is increasingly hostile to U.S. presence, where more and more we look like a foreign occupying power than a liberating army.
    I am sickened every time I hear about another soldier killed in their Humvee, or scores of Iraqi kids blown up (…)

  • ...truth through the night...
    4 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Help give "truth to the night".
    Please do MORE than just wave the flag on July 4th.